Sosee
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Hi all,
Here is the backstory:
A student of mine (I am a CFII) got his PPL a few months ago. (I took him from zero to PPL and am now middle of his IFR.) Upon completion he leans over on the flight back to our base airport and says "I want to buy a Cirrus, I think"
Of course all the warning bells in my head go off at once. 60 hour PPL, ink not dry on his temp and he's a surgeon of course. So I say "whatever you do, do NOT buy a Bonanza, lol" He gets the joke and the conversation turns to him having an appointment with the local regional sales guy for Cirrus in two days.
He returns from that meeting/demo flight with an expression not unlike a virgin in a stripclub for the first time. You know that look, glazed over eyes, a smirk like he just got away with something he wasn't supposed to do. The smirk that says he loves every second of it and the smirk that is pure adrenaline.
Yup, he bought himself a brand new, SR22T Generation 5 Platinum edition...and here is where it gets interesting:
He negotiated for Cirrus to put me through their CSIP program in Duluth, totally Gratis. (I already have completed the "Learning Strands" for all their current models via their online portal). As my student's Cirrus has the Perspective system, those are the materials I have received thus far via their online Learning Portal.
Cirrus material is pretty straight forward. Its easy to use and easy to understand.
According to their system, they are or will be sending me a package in the mail which I believe will contain the hard copy POH's and a PC Trainer for the Perspective Avionics systems.
Anyone ever received this package? Did it indeed contain the above? I am the sort of old school fogie that prefers a hard copy book in my hand over an app on my ipad. Sue me...I like to sit in the jacuzzi and read books over sitting at Startbucks reading a airplane POH but pretending its a fresh script, I just sold to Paramount or some horse hockey like that.
My question is this:
Has anyone here done the CSIP Program in Duluth recently? If so, what should I expect out of them?
I have to admit that I am not so thrilled with the Cirrus folks thus far because after making two phone calls to their training department requesting material to study and never getting a call back, it took a phone call from my student to his Cirrus rep responsible for taking care of his 850K purchase to finally get an email from their training department and then that email told me basically "we hear you are interested in applying for our CSIP program".
I read that and thought to myself, "can they not read?" I am not interested in "applying" because my ffin participation was directly negotiated into the contract of my student's aircraft purchase.
What I am interested in doing is spending the next three months studying the POH and all Supps for the bloody aircraft I will be flying back from Duluth with my student in, since that is when we are flying out so he can accept delivery!
Does anyone have any experience, opinions, thoughts etc on the CSIP program in Duluth nowadays?
I found a couple threads buried deep in the dust of years gone by but they are massively out of date.
Cheers and thanks for the responses.
Here is the backstory:
A student of mine (I am a CFII) got his PPL a few months ago. (I took him from zero to PPL and am now middle of his IFR.) Upon completion he leans over on the flight back to our base airport and says "I want to buy a Cirrus, I think"
Of course all the warning bells in my head go off at once. 60 hour PPL, ink not dry on his temp and he's a surgeon of course. So I say "whatever you do, do NOT buy a Bonanza, lol" He gets the joke and the conversation turns to him having an appointment with the local regional sales guy for Cirrus in two days.
He returns from that meeting/demo flight with an expression not unlike a virgin in a stripclub for the first time. You know that look, glazed over eyes, a smirk like he just got away with something he wasn't supposed to do. The smirk that says he loves every second of it and the smirk that is pure adrenaline.
Yup, he bought himself a brand new, SR22T Generation 5 Platinum edition...and here is where it gets interesting:
He negotiated for Cirrus to put me through their CSIP program in Duluth, totally Gratis. (I already have completed the "Learning Strands" for all their current models via their online portal). As my student's Cirrus has the Perspective system, those are the materials I have received thus far via their online Learning Portal.
Cirrus material is pretty straight forward. Its easy to use and easy to understand.
According to their system, they are or will be sending me a package in the mail which I believe will contain the hard copy POH's and a PC Trainer for the Perspective Avionics systems.
Anyone ever received this package? Did it indeed contain the above? I am the sort of old school fogie that prefers a hard copy book in my hand over an app on my ipad. Sue me...I like to sit in the jacuzzi and read books over sitting at Startbucks reading a airplane POH but pretending its a fresh script, I just sold to Paramount or some horse hockey like that.
My question is this:
Has anyone here done the CSIP Program in Duluth recently? If so, what should I expect out of them?
I have to admit that I am not so thrilled with the Cirrus folks thus far because after making two phone calls to their training department requesting material to study and never getting a call back, it took a phone call from my student to his Cirrus rep responsible for taking care of his 850K purchase to finally get an email from their training department and then that email told me basically "we hear you are interested in applying for our CSIP program".
I read that and thought to myself, "can they not read?" I am not interested in "applying" because my ffin participation was directly negotiated into the contract of my student's aircraft purchase.
What I am interested in doing is spending the next three months studying the POH and all Supps for the bloody aircraft I will be flying back from Duluth with my student in, since that is when we are flying out so he can accept delivery!
Does anyone have any experience, opinions, thoughts etc on the CSIP program in Duluth nowadays?
I found a couple threads buried deep in the dust of years gone by but they are massively out of date.
Cheers and thanks for the responses.
